FINALS

 GENERAL QUIZ 2016

QUESTIONS ARE FRAMED BY

▪  GAURAV SUMAN ,▪  DEEP NANDI,▪  SAKUL GARG,▪  PANKAJ SINGH,▪  TAPAN PANDE▪ ALOK GUPTA.

   YAHA SIRF MERICHALEGI.                      :­ALOKGUPTA                      (QUIZMASTER)

            ROUND 1

      BIZ QUIZBRANDS,ENTREPRENEURS,COMPANIES,ECONOMICS ,FINANCEETC.

1.Identify the company from it’sold logo whose Indian divisionwas acquired by a Madrasbased company and whoselegacy of weaponsmanufacture is reflected in thelogo.

● ROYALENFIELD

2.”Z” IS A CARTOON CHARACTERCREATED BY JOANNA FERRONE AND SUEROSE .ROSE FIRST DEVELOPED THECHARACTED IN 1985,ON A NAPKIN IN ARESTAURANT .THEY LATER STENCILED“Z” ON T-SHIRTS.ID Z?

● FIDO DIDO

3.IDENTIFY THISONLINE PAYMENTCOMPANY WHICH HASRECENTLY BEENACQUIRED BY PAYU?

● CITRUS

4.THIS WAS THE FIRSTAD IN WHICH AMULGIRL IS SHOWN CRYING,ON WHOSE DEATHANNIVERSARY

WAS THIS ADRELEASED?

● DR.VERGHESEKURIEN

5.IDENTIFY THECOMPANYFOUNDED BY THELEGEND SITTINGNEXT TO MESSI?

● ADIDAS ,HEIS ADOLFDASSLER

6.SIR.OSBORNE SMITH WAS THE FIRSTGOVERNOR OF RESERVE BANK OFINDIA.HE IS DIFFERENT FROM OTHERGOVERNORS AS HE WAS NOT ANINDIAN AND WHAT OTHER FACTMAKES HIM DIFFERENT FROM OTHERGOVERNORS?

● ONLYGOVERNORWHO HASN’TSIGNED ONTHECURRENCYNOTES

7.WHICH INDIANCOMPANY OWNSCORIANDER ,SAFFRON ,MINT ,FENNEL,

CARDAMOM,PEPPER,DILL, ROSEMARY,BASIL,THYME(*theseare not masala’s)?

● ALL ARETHE JETSOWNEDBY SPICEJET.

8.ID THE PERSON ,HE IS THESAVIOUR OF ALL THESTUDENTS SPECIALLYCOLLEGE STUDENTS?

● JIMMYWALES ,FOUNDER OFWIKIPEDI

ROUND 2

SPORTS

RULES :

● IT IS A POUNCEROUND .

● EACH AND EVERYTEAM GETS ACHANCE TOANSWER.

● +10/-5

1.IDENTIFY THEOLD LOGO OFTHE FOOTBALLCLUB?

● CHELSEAFOOTBALL CLUB

2.IDENTIFY THIS FAMOUSTROPHY?

● WARNE-MURALIDHARAN TROPHY

3.WHY ARE THESE MEDALLISTLISTENING TO THEIR MEDALS?

● THESE ARE PARAOLYMPIANWHO ARE VISUALLYIMPARED SO INORDER TOKNOW WHICH MEDALTHEY HAVE RECEIVEDTHEY SHAKE THE MEDALAND LISTEN TO IT.THEBRONZE MEDALS HAVE 16STEEL BALLS AND MAKETHE LOWEST SOUND. THESILVER ONES HAVE 20BALLS AND THE GOLDS

4.ID THIS WEIGHTLIFTER WHO WONTHE BRONZE MEDALIN 2000 SYDNEYOLYMPICS?

● KARNAMMALLESHWARI

5.ID THE PERSONNEXT TO MICHAELPHELPS?

● JOSEPHSCHOOLING

6. X WAS A BRITISH POLITICIAN,DIPLOMAT, ACADEMIC, OUTSTANDINGAMATEUR ATHELETE.HE WON ASILVER MEDAL AT THE 1920 SUMMEROLYMPICS IN ANTWERP ANDRECEIVED THE NOBEL PRIZE IN1959.MAKING HIM THE ONLY PERSONTO WIN A NOBEL PRIZE AND A MEDALAT OLYMPICS? 

● PHILIP-NOEL BAKER

7.WHO GAVE THENAME “FLYINGSIKH” TOMILKHA SINGH?

● GENERALAYUBKHAN

8.ID THIS STAR SQUASHPLAYER?

● DEEPIKAPALLIKAL

ROUND 3

HISTORY

.1. The chief consort of amughal emperor. Earliername was MEHRUNISSAA.Identify her?

NOOR JAHAN,WIFE OFJEHANGIR

2.The queen who led the first war ofindependence from AWADH.ID HER?

● BEGUM HAZRATMAHAL

3.FIRST WOMAN AMBASSADOR OF freeindia.?

● VIJAY LAKSHMIPANDIT

Q4.He was the first FIELD MARSHAL ofINDIA?

● FIELDMARSHALSAMMANEKSHAW

Q5.LAST HINDU RULER OF INDIA?.

● PRITHVIRAJCHAUHAN

Q6.Last ruler of DELHI SULTANATEdefeated by BABUR?

● IBRAHIMLODI

7.INDIA’S �rst MOVIEdirector. Below is the picof the director, FATHEROF INDIAN CINEMA?

● DADASAHEBPHALKE.

8.THIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN AT THEFORMER VICEROY HOUSE, WHICH ISNOW KNOWN AS THE RASHTRAPATIBHAVAN.THIS IMAGE OF GANDHIJI ISSEEN BY EVERYONE BUT NOT IN THISFORM.WHERE WOULD YOU FIND THISIMAGE?

• INDIAN CURRENCY NOTES

ROUND 4

SCIENCE AND TECH

1.THESE ARE THE RESULTS FOR ONEOF THE WORLD’S LONGESTRUNNING EXPERIMENT’S .THISEXPERIMENT IS DONE INORDER TOFIND OUT THE VISCOCITY OF HIGLYVISCOUS FLUIDS.ID THEEXPERIMENT?

● PITCHDROPEXPERIMENT

2. ADOLPHE QUETELET WAS ABELGIAN STATISTICIANPOPULARIZED THE BELLCURVE AND THE NORMALDISTRIBUTION. HOWEVER, HISSEARCH FOR THE ‘AVERAGEMAN’ IN TERMS OF PHYSIQUE,LED HIM TO DEVELOPSOMETHING WHICH WENT BYTHE NAME OF ‘QUETELETINDEX’ BUT IS VERY POPULARUNDER A DIFFERENT NAMETODAY.

WHAT AM I TALKING ABOUT?

3. THIS IS THE BLACKESTMATERIAL KNOWN TOMANKIND.NAME IT?

● VANTABLACK

4.WHICH TECHNOLOGYWAS INVENTED BY SVENMATTINSON AND IS NAMEDAFTER A DANISH KING?

● BLUETOOTH,

5.WHICH FAMOUSFATHER SON DUORECEIVED THE 1915NOBEL PHYSICS PRIZEFOR THEIR”ANALYSIS OFCRYSTAL STRUCTUREUSING X-RAYS”?

WILLIAMHENRY BRAGGAND WILLIAMLAWRENCEBRAGG.

6. This is a piece ofmineral rock that’scalled Armalcolite.How did it get itsname?

NAMED AFTERARMSTRONG,BUZZ ALDRIN,ADAM COLLINS

● 7.HE IS KNOWN AS THE FOUNDER OFINDIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAMME.WHO?

● HOMI JBHABHA

● 8.ID ?

● RAKESH SHARMA,FIRST INDIAN TOGO INTO SPACE